ID
Day
Activity
Resources

1
Icebreaker (snowball fight with 2 things about yourself or one page of 6 pictures about yourself)


1
Complete "Student Info Sheet" OR Fill out index card with info about passions to hand in ("Get to Know You Questions")



1
Learning Success PowerPoint (includes rules and procedures)






2
Icebreaker: This or That icebreaker


2
Learning Styles Activity







3
Icebreaker: Which rule will be hardest and easiest for you to follow and why?


3
Lab Safety Activity:
ES: Lab Skills 1 and Safety in the Biology Classroom
BIO: Lab Skills 2 (use internet to research tools prior to completing lab) and Safety in the Biology Classroom
BIO II: Divide into groups and each group picks a section of the Lab safety appendix in the Environmental Science text. Each group develops 2 skits illustrating proper or improper lab procedures and others guess what is done wrong or right)


3
Science Safety Contract (read through, paraphrase, sign)






4
Warmup: Identify the Safety Concern (what not to do or http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/safety.html)


4
American Chopper video


4
Metric Estimation Game (http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1275.html)


4
Measuring Accurately and Precisely Stations
OR Banana Peel, Lab Skills 3, Mr. Peanut






5
Warmup: Show pictures of objects and ask what tools would be used to measure mass, volume, etc.


5
What is Science Prezi and Activity


5
Scientific Method Pre-Assessment







6
Warmup: 2 questions science can answer and 1 that it cannot


6
Scientific Method Tutorial (http://www.gccaz.edu/biology/glacier/scientific_method/) (individually in lab or as a class on SmartBoard)

Computer access





7
Warm up: Scientific Method sequencing activity


7
Modeling the Scientific Method Lab:
1: Paper Helicopters or Whirlybirds
2: Penny Lab or Paper Towel Testing
3: Tootsie Roll Lab or Lung Capacity






8
Warm up: Identify the problem, hypothesis, results, and conclusion statements from the previous day's experiment


8
Practicing the Scientific Method Lab:
1: Water Beads Lab or Diaper Lab
2: Rockets Lab or Slug Slime or Reaction Time
3: Soaking Gummi Bears or Sugar Cube Science







9
Warm up: Identify the independent and dependent variables and constants from the previous day's lab


9
Interactive Quiz (with response cards or on ipods)


9
Individual quiz (written)